What crisis? Britain just had a a 1.3-billion bash

June 06, 2012 11:03

Also on The Hindu: Ok, ok, I'll not bang on about the cost, but, if you wish to know, it was in the region of 1.3 billion; and, I do get the point about the need to "lighten up' occasionally even in the midst of deepening gloom. But shutting down the entire nation for four full days just to humour the Queen?

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